iplayfast - Slashdot User

Submission + - Is it safe to program .NET for Linux?

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on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @04:15PM

iplayfast writes: "I program for a number of operating systems and usually end up using C++. However as C++ is getting more and more knarly (IMHO) I'm thinking of going to C# which is similar to C++ without the knarlyness.

My worry is that given Microsoft's tendency to sue or back law suits against anything Linuxy If I develop an app for Linux using .NET will I have to re-write it 10 years down the road due to legal issues. Is it safe?"

Submission + - Lightbulbs Could Replace Wi-Fi Hotpsots (cellular-news.com) 1

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on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @01:44AM

iplayfast writes: "Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create "Smart Lighting" that would be faster and more secure than current network technology.
This initiative aims to develop an optical communication technology that would make an LED light the equivalent of a Wi-Fi access point."

Submission + - Conservatives Promise to Re-Introduce Canadian DMC (www.cbc.ca)

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on Wednesday October 08, 2008 @01:06AM

iplayfast writes: "http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3439/ A re-elected Conservative Government led by Stephen Harper will reintroduce federal copyright legislation that strikes the appropriate balance among the rights of musicians, artists, programmers and other creators and brings Canada's intellectual property protection in line with that of other industrialized countries, but also protects consumers who want to access copyright works for their personal use. We will also introduce tougher laws on counterfeiting and piracy and give our customs and law enforcement services the resources to enforce them. This will protect consumers from phoney and sometimes dangerous products that are passed off as reliable brand-name goods. In otherwords, the Conservatives remain bought by the music and film industries."

Submission + - Flame war as it should be done! (kerneltrap.org)

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on Friday June 15, 2007 @12:35PM

iplayfast writes: "The kernel trap has an excellent post of a flame war between GPL2 Linus Torvalds and GPL3 Alexandre Oliva.

Some of the highlights are:
Linus: What kind of logic is that? ....
Alexandre: By this reasoning, .... Is this why you're overreacting?
Linus: ....How stupid are you to not acknowledge that?
Linus: ...I'm sorry, but people who cannot see that difference are just stupid.
Alexandre: No. The FSF actually ....
Linus: ....If you really thought anything else, you're just uninformed and stupid,
and didn't think things through.
...
Linus:...You're a moron.
...
Linus:...Go away."

Submission + - RSA Factoring Challenge is no more!

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on Wednesday May 09, 2007 @10:10AM

iplayfast writes: "RSA Factoring Challenge is no more. http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=2092
From the site Why is the RSA Factoring Challenge no longer active?

Various cryptographic challenges — including the RSA Factoring Challenge — served in the early days of commercial cryptography to measure the state of progress in practical cryptanalysis and reward researchers for the new knowledge they have brought to the community. Now that the industry has a considerably more advanced understanding of the cryptanalytic strength of common symmetric-key and public-key algorithms, these challenges are no longer active. The records, however, are presented here for reference by interested cryptographers.

I think they've realized that with cheap cpu's and modern OS's, these challenges are more at risk, and can be cracked more easily. They just don't want to pay the money :)"

Submission + - parellelknoppix

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on Monday May 07, 2007 @11:43AM

iplayfast writes: "Newest version of parallelKnoppix is out with 2.6.21 kernel. From the announcement "Linuxtracker.org is pleased to announce the availability of ParallelKnoppix v2.6 on the linuxtracker bittorrent network. For faster downloads, more accurate statistics and to see all of the available torrents, please visit http://linuxtracker.org./""

Submission + - France chooses Ubuntu Linux over Microsoft

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on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @12:43PM

iplayfast writes: "Whilst France is currently in the throws of a vicious election campaign, it seems that quietly in the background another victory has taken place. The victory isn't just for freedom, it seems that the victory is for free software. Story here"

Submission + - RSA Factoring Challenge is no more!

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on Monday February 05, 2007 @01:50PM

iplayfast writes: "The RSA Factoring challenge used to be here has quietly disappeared. RSA Laboratories has been sponsoring the RSA Factoring Challenge since the 1990s as a way of highlighting progress on integer factoring, the mathematical problem underlying the security of the RSA public-key cryptosystem. The research community has done excellent theoretical work on algorithms for finding the prime factors of very large numbers, and it's always nice when the algorithms are put into practice and prime factors are actually found. The challenges offer a showcase for such accomplishments. So does this mean all the challenge numbers have been factored? Who won?"

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